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...playing [chess] against crappy players while doped on pain killers is much more fun than it should be.Who needs Modafinil?
Betty Bledsoe of Indianapolis, holds a box containing daily medications for her children as they receive a chess lesson in her Indianapolis home Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007. All 12 of Bledsoe's children receive Medicaid for various disabilities and she worries about Gov. Mitch Daniels plan to automate the processing of food stamps, Medicaid and other benefits. Daniels is leading the way among cash-strapped governors who are contracting out services states historically have handled themselves.Post your caption in the comments.
What will happen when the first genetically modified competitors emerge? Will there be a stratification of competitions, ones featuring unaugmented players and ones featuring those with genetic mods? Thinking more philosophically, what is the qualitative difference between an unmodified player who was born with a genetic advantage versus a player who had that advantage given to them via assistive reprotech?
Initial reports suggest that the chess-playing computer went on a massive drugs&sex&booze session to celebrate.... Onlookers were amazed to see Fritz (or "the Fritz-Meister General" as he prefers to be called) totally off his face in the bar of his hotel just hours after his marathon chess challenge.Read "Deep Fritz goes on 5 day bender after claiming chess crown" from Robots Will Take Over!
The thing is we drink too much and are unable to analyse as a consequence.
But one thing I learned, don't play drunk chess, especially when you don't have proper shot glasses.See also "How to Play Chess With Beer".
Read "Sharper minds" from the Los Angeles Times (Hat tip: ChessBase News).The age of smart drugs is dawning. Modafinil is just one in an array of brain-boosting medications — some already on pharmacy shelves and others in development — that promise an era of sharper thinking through chemistry....
In a series of experiments in 2001, Sahakian and colleagues found that in games that test mental skill, subjects who took a 200-milligram dose of modafinil paid closer attention and used information more effectively than subjects given a sugar pill.
